See also:


go to Fishers Hill page.. (includes aerial photo)


go to Titchfield Abbey page..

go to CATISFIELD main page..



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Origins

1232? The original bridge built (of wood) across the Meon at the bottom of Fishers Hill (now known as Anjou Bridge or 'Stony Bridge')

1445 Henry VI & Margaret of Anjou went down Fishers Hill to Titchfield Abbey from Southwick, for the reconfirmation of their marriage in France (hence the name of the bridge)

159x Wiiliam Shakespeare may have walked up Fishers Hill, when he was staying at the Abbey

1625 The current 'Stony Bridge' (Anjou bridge) thought to have been built

1662 Pepys visited Titchfield (so probably traversed Fishers Hill)

1811 On first of June the direct road ('Catisfield Hill') from Heathfield to Titchfield was opened. So Fishers Hill and Anjou Bridge no longer formed the 'main road' between Portsmouth/Fareham and Southampton/Titchfield